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SOFT LEAVED WILLOW. 
branches are smooth and brownish-black, sometimes 
glaucous or whitish. The leaves (about 2 to 3 inches 
long and half an inch wide) are at first covered with a 
brownish silky down which disappears with age, when 
the leaves become dark green and bluish-white, or 
glaucous beneath, they are usually very acute, and 
mostly entire. The catkins are small and oblong, with 
2 or 3 leaves at the base of the pedicel; the scales of 
the stamens are small and blackish, oval and obtuse, 
somewhat hairy. The female aments have very short 
pedicels, and produce at the base about 2 leaves; the 
scales are narrow and linear; the capsules pedicellated, 
somewhat villous, but at length nearly smooth, ventri- 
cose-lanceolate, with long points, and nearly sessile 
stigmas. 
SOFT LEAVED WILLOW. 
SALIX SESsiLiFOLiA, foliis lanceolatis sessilibus acutissimis 
apice subserrulatis villosis mollibus, stipulis nullis, amen- 
tis serotinis diandris elongatis terminalibus! germinibus 
lanatis, capsulis lanceolatis demum subglabris, stylo pro- 
funde bipartita stigmatibus bijidis. 
This beautiful and very distinct species of Willow, 
formed dense tufts on the rocky borders of the Oregon, 
at the confluence of the Wahlamet, attaining to the 
height of about 6 to 8 feet, and when in flower appeared 
as showy as a Mimosa. It is remarkably leafy, and the 
leaves are hoary, with a rather long and somewhat 
copious pubescence, which communicates a softness to 
the touch equal to that of velvet; whether the leaves 
afterwards become more smooth or not I cannot say, 
but think it probable. Different from almost every 
other Willow I have seen, the catkins each terminate so 
